last class notes - Hermeneutics the process of...

Hermeneutics: the process of interpretation. Psychoanalysis has been called the hermeneutics of suspicion.The Trial is all about hermeneuticsK goes about his life like everything were in control but now that he himself is under suspicion he loses that sense; he is under a hermeneutics of guilt. Freud says the problem with civilization is unconscious guilt. This makes for an odd combination: you have to be suspicious all the time and feel guilty.Epistemological means having to do with knowledge; the trial is full of epistemological difficulties.p. 149 hermeneutic look at guilt..lower on 149: is there any authority? Its all interpretation whether something is true or not. The psychical reality of the individual is the subject; this also means we are subjected to all sorts of authority that we know nothing about, but we’re thrown under that bus..p.153 K. is looking for controdictions; rationality. The painter says he hasn’t contradicted himself.

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